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Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 Matches GPT-6 Luna at 10 Cents per Million Input Tokens

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday at $0.10 per million input tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, the same rate OpenAI charges for GPT-6 Luna. The rate is 90% below Haiku 4.5 on those prompts, but Anthropic’s own estimate of the average saving is about 75%, once a tokenizer that counts roughly 30% more tokens for the same text is included. Anthropic is aiming it at high-volume work, including live customer support and browser use, and at subagent tasks handed down by Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5. What Changed

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Reflection AI Unveils Beam, an Open-Weight Model It Says Matches China's GLM-5.2

Reflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches China's GLM-5.2 on reasoning at three to four times less compute. Weights are due this month, no independent evaluation exists yet, and Reflection's own table shows Beam trailing newer Chinese models.

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